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Take Ten - KEITH HAMILTON COBB

January 16, 2019 | by
Michael Kyrioglou

Keith Hamilton Cobb

Furniture maker, soap-opera veteran, fair-weather mystic, writer of short fiction -- actor KEITH HAMILTON COBB is nothing if not a man of parts. This month he's onstage at the Anacostia Playhouse, where his play American Moor is getting a second outing through February 3 (it ran there in 2015), this time directed by Drama Desk nominee Kim Weild. Cobb talks dream dates, the evanescence of theatre and more in this week's Take Ten from theatreWashington.

10 Questions

Take Ten - LAURA C. HARRIS

December 19, 2018 | by
Michael Kyrioglou

Laura C. Harris

From contemporary outings (The Flick at Signature) to classic comedies (The School for Scandal at the Folger), actor LAURA C. HARRIS, now appearing in Kingsthrough Janury 6 at Studio Theatre,has made herself at home across a range of styles. A middle child (and a graduate of Middlebury College), she deflects questions about favorites with a firm "no easy answers" -- though she will admit to having a soft spot for fellow D.C.-based actor Eric Messner, who's also known as Mr. Laura C. Harris.

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Take Ten - KAZI JONES

December 18, 2018 | by
Michael Kyrioglou

Kazi Jones

She learned from her grandfather — a singer and preacher — how to work a crowd. And she learned from Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls … that she wanted to live a life in the theatre. KAZI JONES, who’s in The Second City's She the People (at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company through Jan. 6), talks awful jobs, bloody onstage injuries and more in this week’s Take Ten.

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Take Ten - TIMOTHY DOUGLAS

December 11, 2018 | by
Michael Kyrioglou

Timothy Douglas

When being kicked in the head by a Rockette (more or less) isn't the wildest thing that's happened to you, you know you've had a hell of a life. Director TIMOTHY DOUGLAS, whose production of Gem of the Ocean runs through Dec. 30 at Round House Theatre in Bethesda, talks half-naked entrances, gas-passing corpses, and learning all of Wooster's lines -- but never getting to deliver them -- in Henry IV, Part I, all in this week's Take Ten from theatreWashington.

10 Questions

Take Ten - AWA SAL SECKA

December 5, 2018 | by
Michael Kyrioglou

Awa Sal Secka

From a high-school production of Fame to her current gig playing the most iconic fairy-tale princess of all, AWA SAL SECKA knows what kind of power there is in making art that challenges and inspires -- and she knows just how perfect she (and you) are for that role. The star of Cinderella (at Imagination Stage through Jan. 6) talks about figuring out how to scream, handling a high-profile wig malfunction, and finding "the ability to just do" in this week's Take Ten.